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Less than a month after its editor-in-chief was sentenced to eight years in prison, major Kazakh news site Orda.kz has ceased publication - a move the owner claims is financial, but press freedom advocates call the culmination of a systematic state crackdown.

Sensational headlines about the nationalization of Amkodor and the retirement of its former owner, which appeared in the media March 2025, proved far from reality.